Cookie differences

[EdLeafe]

I have a project that used requests when it was started, and then later was moved to async and aiohttp. Now I'm trying to replace aiohttp with httpx, but I'm getting a failure that seems to be tied to how httpx handles cookies.
The project is a tool for handling Mailman admin issues; it passes authentication and gets a list of outstanding issues as well as a cookie, which needs to be sent in the response for handling the outstanding issues. With requests and aiohttp, parsing the cookie values returns:

KEY testing+admin
VAL Set-Cookie: testing+admin=280200000069e<snip>; Domain=mail.leafe.com; Path=/mailman/; Secure; Version=1

But with httpx, I see this:

KEY testing+admin
VAL 2802000000695b6<snip>

When I return that cookie to the server, the update request is rejected as unauthenticated, which doesn't happen with either requests or aiohttp.

I've been replacing all my earlier async code that used aiohttp with httpx, because I strongly prefer httpx. But this is a blocker for this project. The code flow is:

get_response = await session.get(url, headers=headers)
...
<process>
...
post_response = await session.post(url, headers=headers, cookies=get_response.cookies)

What can be done differently in the handling of the cookies?

[EdLeafe]

Anyone??

[EdLeafe]

Wow, over 2 months with no reply. Sad.

[lovelydinosaur]

Hi Ed. I took a look at this when it came in, but the issue didn't help make it clear enough how to replicate what you're seeing, and so it was/is difficult to formulate a helpful response, or to see if it was/is worth investing my time into it.

Perhaps you could provide a replicable example demonstrating the differences?

[lovelydinosaur]

Specifically...

With requests and aiohttp, parsing the cookie values returns ... But with httpx, I see this

This leaves some very big gaps for a maintainer or contributor to try to fill in.

[EdLeafe]

Hi Ed. I took a look at this when it came in, but the issue didn't help make it clear enough how to replicate what you're seeing, and so it was/is difficult to formulate a helpful response, or to see if it was/is worth investing my time into it.

Perhaps you could provide a replicable example demonstrating the differences?

That would have been a helpful response back then. I wasn't sure what information would be helpful, so I framed the question as generally as possible, hoping someone more familiar with the code would have seen something like this before.

As it turns out, I was on 0.22.0, and while creating a small program to repro the issue, noticed that the current version in 0.23.0. I upgraded to that, and the issue disappeared. I don't see anything in the 0.23.0 release notes that indicate that there were any changes with cookies, but it seems to have corrected the problem.

[EdLeafe]

So please feel free to close this issue.